Hi, I'm Pradeep

Solution Architect & Senior Software Engineer | Cloud, Security, and AI

Systems architected for the frontier.

Eighteen years architecting, building, and securing the systems organizations depend on. Cloud, security, full-stack, and AI are the tools. The work underneath never changes: understand the problem before you build.

18+
years architecting and building
11
years leading a state agency’s technical estate
7+
production-grade systems architected

About

Purpose first lights the way, the problem becomes clear, and the right stack follows naturally.

I'm a Solution Architect and Senior Software Engineer with 18+ years architecting, building, and securing enterprise systems. The method rarely changes: understand the purpose a system exists to serve, study the problem underneath it, and let the stack follow from that. Cloud, security, full-stack, and AI are all tools, and which one matters depends entirely on the problem in front of it.

Today I design and run a tiered, multi-agent AI engineering system. Work is routed across models by task, agents are specialized by role, and every deploy stays human-gated. FactGuard, an evidence-verification platform, runs on it across web, a public REST API, and an MCP server.

Before that I spent eleven years leading the technical estate at a U.S. state agency. I owned the solution architecture, development and operations for a public-facing platform serving 100,000+ visitors a year. I also moved the infrastructure to AWS, consolidated a datacenter onto a virtualized estate, held a NIST-aligned security posture, and supervised the team that ran it.

My practice spans cloud on AWS and Firebase/GCP, security to NIST 800-53, and full-stack engineering. Alongside that I work hands-on across the AI stack: the Anthropic Claude API, Apple Foundation Models, Google Vertex AI, MCP servers, RAG, and multi-agent orchestration.

Fluent in English, Telugu, and Hindi.

Currently

Solution Architect | Founder
RAYFINITE LLC, Los Angeles, CA

Building products end-to-end: architecture, engineering, security, and launch, through a proprietary multi-agent engineering platform.

Education

MS, Computer Science
New York Institute of Technology
Specialization: Artificial Intelligence

Capabilities

Eighteen years of systems fundamentals, now applied to AI-native architecture.

Enterprise cloud, security and full-stack engineering, now extended into multi-agent AI systems. The work is in how agents plan, check each other, and ship software without breaking things.

AI Models & Tooling

  • Anthropic Claude API
  • Apple Foundation Models
  • Google Gemini · Gemini Live API
  • Google AI Studio
  • Google Vertex AI
  • Cloudflare Workers AI
  • Groq
  • NotebookLM
  • LLaMA 3 / LLaVA
  • Whisper · Piper
  • llama.cpp · MLC-LLM · Ollama · GGUF Quantization
  • Model Context Protocol
  • LangChain · LangGraph
  • Tool Use / Function Calling
  • FAISS · pgvector · SQLite-VSS
  • MiniLM Embeddings
  • Transformers.js Embeddings
  • WebLLM (in-browser)
  • LoRA Adapters
  • Fine-Tuning Pipelines
  • Argilla
  • Multi-Provider Routing + Circuit Breaker
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Google Antigravity
  • GitHub Copilot
  • VS Code
  • Pair-Programming with LLMs

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, Route 53, VPC, IAM)
  • Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Functions, App Check)
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Cloudflare (Workers, Pages, D1, KV)
  • Oracle Cloud (proof-of-concept)
  • VMware
  • GoAnywhere MFT
  • Docker · Docker Compose
  • GitHub Actions · CI/CD
  • Infrastructure as Code

Engineering

  • iOS (Swift 6, SwiftUI, SwiftData, StoreKit 2)
  • watchOS · WidgetKit
  • HealthKit · WeatherKit · CloudKit
  • CoreML · Vision · MapKit
  • React · React Native · Next.js
  • Astro
  • Tauri (Rust)
  • Node.js · TypeScript
  • Python · FastAPI
  • Three.js · React Three Fiber · glTF
  • Blender
  • WebSockets
  • WebFlow
  • GovDelivery
  • JavaScript
  • HTML5
  • CSS
  • C#
  • .NET
  • VB.NET
  • Java
  • Unix · Linux · Ubuntu
  • macOS · Windows · Android OS

Data & Storage

  • Firestore
  • PostgreSQL · pgvector
  • Cloudflare D1
  • SQLite · Redis
  • Supabase
  • Drizzle ORM
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MongoDB
  • Oracle 12c · Oracle AI Database
  • DB2
  • Power BI
  • Oracle WebCenter · OBIEE

Security, Architecture & Leadership

  • NIST 800-53
  • Pre-Deploy Security Audits
  • Secret Manager
  • Firestore Security Rules
  • Zero-Trust Credentials · RBAC
  • Palo Alto · Splunk · Tenable
  • Security Onion · Kali Linux
  • Shodan
  • Oracle Wallet
  • Solution Architecture
  • Technical Architecture Documents
  • ADRs
  • Cloud-Native Design
  • Microservices
  • Team Supervision & Mentoring
  • SDLC Ownership

Also exploring: Microsoft Azure.

Career

Experience

  1. Solution Architect | Founder

    Jun 2026 - Present RAYFINITE LLC · Los Angeles, CA

    Founded a solo venture studio building AI-native products end-to-end (architecture, engineering, security, and launch), operated through a proprietary multi-agent AI engineering platform.

    • Architected a multi-agent AI software-engineering platform with tiered model routing, role-specialized agents, and fail-closed CI security-review gates verified adversarially with bait pull requests.
    • Delivered FactGuard on Firebase/GCP, an AI fact-verification platform live across web, a public REST API, and an MCP server, with a proprietary multi-step verification engine and multi-provider model routing. The iOS app is built and preparing for launch.
    • Architected a cloud/edge hybrid multi-agent platform for IT incident response, with incident-commander orchestration, zero-trust credential handling, and blast-radius analysis before any automated action.
    • Designed a verifiable-evidence layer around a swappable asymmetric signing port, specified for Ed25519, so a third party can verify an evidence bundle without holding a shared secret.
    • Built a CRDT-based distributed coordination store letting AI agents on multiple machines share state and knowledge without a central server.
  2. IT Technical Specialist Supervisor | Solution Architect

    Jan 2015 - Jun 2026 Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center · Baltimore, MD
    • Led the agency's digital footprint end to end, solution architecture, development, and operations for a public-facing site serving 100,000+ annual visitors, an intranet portal, and a stack of integrated enterprise applications (GoAnywhere MFT, GovDelivery, Power BI, Oracle WebCenter / OBIEE, WebFlow, Tenable, Palo Alto, and more).
    • Prototyped a Retrieval-Augmented Generation solution on Google Vertex AI, Google AI Studio, and NotebookLM to surface insights from internal agency documents.
    • Evaluated locally-hosted open-source LLMs via Ollama and LLaMA 3, integrated through LangChain and MCP servers, for secure on-premise AI under data-sovereignty constraints.
    • Drove a 2-3x acceleration in team delivery velocity by adopting AI-assisted, agentic coding workflows with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code.
    • Migrated the agency's infrastructure to the Tierpoint datacenter, 10 physical servers hosting a VMware-based estate of ~40 virtual servers and 30 desktop VMs, delivering a 50%+ improvement in system performance.
    • Spearheaded AWS cloud adoption and implemented the agency's AWS cloud infrastructure, disaster recovery, application hosting, and off-site storage via EC2, S3, Route 53, Lambda, ELB, VPN, and VPC networking, and evaluated Oracle Cloud through proof-of-concept work.
    • Modernized legacy Oracle WebCenter dashboards onto Microsoft Power BI, improving refresh times and lowering licensing exposure.
    • Strengthened cybersecurity posture with NIST-aligned firewall and detection rules, partnering with the SOC team on Palo Alto Firewalls, Splunk, and Tenable.
    • Supervised and mentored a team of three IT staff and owned the full SDLC.
  3. Senior Software Engineer | Technical Consultant

    Aug 2011 - Jan 2015 Tejase Technologies Inc. · Des Moines, IA
    • Logitech Inc. (Project Manager), delivered enterprise architecture and technical consulting across Fortune 500 and public-sector clients, leading initiatives from solution design through production rollout.
    • Catamaran Rx (Senior Application Architect / ECM Consultant), architected enterprise content-management solutions on Oracle Fusion Middleware, improving document-workflow efficiency for a healthcare benefits leader.
    • Minnesota Housing Finance Agency (Senior Technical Consultant), drove strategic IT modernization: web application development, integrations, and platform stability.
  4. Software Engineer | Technical Consultant

    Feb 2008 - Aug 2011 Fusion Global Solutions · Overland Park, KS

Selected Work

Projects

Systems I've architected and built end to end, from an evidence-verification platform running in production to the agentic engineering infrastructure behind it. The last three are in active build.

RAYFINITE Agentic Framework

Live

Multi-agent AI software-engineering platform

Tiered model routing, role-specialized executive and engineering agents, fail-closed CI security-review gates verified adversarially with bait pull requests, cross-machine agent federation, and skill supply-chain allowlisting, packaged as a versioned, installable plugin.

  • Multi-Agent Orchestration
  • CI Security Gates
  • Plugin Architecture
Visit rayfinite.com

WeatherHappiness

Built, launching

iOS wellbeing app

SwiftUI + HealthKit app correlating weather patterns with personal health metrics, with a companion web experience, on Firebase/GCP.

  • SwiftUI
  • HealthKit
  • Firebase/GCP

FactGuard

Live

Evidence verification engine

Live across web, a public REST API, and an MCP server on Firebase/GCP, with a proprietary multi-step verification engine, multi-provider model routing with a circuit breaker, and live Stripe subscription billing. The iOS app is built and preparing for launch.

  • iOS
  • Web
  • REST API
  • MCP
  • Firebase/GCP
  • Stripe
Visit factguard.org

Dataveb

Built, launching

No-code web-scraping & automated-reporting SaaS

Python/FastAPI, Next.js, and Playwright, architected security-first, including an SSRF-guarded extraction layer and per-tenant usage metering.

  • FastAPI
  • Next.js
  • Playwright
  • SSRF-Hardened
Visit dataveb.com

LovelyRobo

In build

Spatial AI-companion platform

Photoreal 3D companion scenes in the browser, built on Next.js and React Three Fiber, with live voice and cross-device persistent memory. Verified by an automated harness that walks each scene and captures screenshots rather than trusting a passing test.

  • React Three Fiber
  • Voice AI
  • Rendered Verification

Regionara

In build

Multi-tenant community platform

Several separately branded diaspora communities served from one codebase: local business directory, events, jobs and forums. Embeddings are generated locally in-process rather than through an external service, feeding a retrieval-based answer layer.

  • Multi-Tenant
  • pgvector
  • Local Embeddings

Blazingray

In build

Governed multi-product business platform

Demand generation, lead capture, document generation and collections in one TypeScript monorepo. Per-package type and test gates judged by exit code, ordered idempotent migrations across two independently versioned Postgres clusters, and operator tooling for kill-switch, restore drills and retention.

  • TypeScript Monorepo
  • Postgres
  • Operator Tooling

Status shown for each project is taken from its repository and is current as of .

Foundations

Education & Professional Development

Education

Master of Science, Computer Science

New York Institute of Technology, Manhattan Campus, NY · Jan 2006 - May 2008

Specialization: Artificial Intelligence, Operating System Security, Compiler Theory, Software Engineering, Computer Graphics.

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Information Technology

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad, India · Jun 2001 - May 2005

Coursework: Data Structures, Operating Systems, Database Management, Information Security, Cloud Computing.

Professional Development & Training

  • Anthropic: Multiple AI / LLM courses with completion certificates: prompt engineering, Claude API integration, applied AI workflows.
  • AWS Training & Certification (Instructor-Led), Architecting on AWS, Developing on AWS, AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials Day.
  • State of Maryland: Multiple cybersecurity training programs: security awareness, NIST controls, incident response.
  • Self-Directed AI Engineering: Hands-on work with the Anthropic Claude API, Apple Foundation Models, Firebase/GCP, Vertex AI, Google AI Studio, NotebookLM, LangChain, MCP servers, Groq, Google Antigravity, Ollama, LLaMA 3, llama.cpp, and Jupyter Notebooks.

Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified Professional

Let's talk

Open to conversations about AI architecture, engineering leadership, and what's next.

Whether it's a role, a collaboration, or just trading notes on agentic AI systems, I'd love to hear from you.

Los Angeles, CA · Open to hybrid